Today’s Delights

Today from our Thai Kitchen, we have a delicious Chicken Thai Red Curry, served with rice, and from our Indian Kitchen, a South Indian Keralan Chicken Curry, also served with rice. All of our dishes are full of authentic flavours yet prepared in a healthy way. They are slow cooked to perfection to bring out the wonderful flavours in the succulent meat, enhanced by the aromatic spices and herb blends used.

The vegetarian and Vegan dish today is from our Indian Kitchen. It is a wonderful street food dish, Samosa Chaat. Yummy!! It has layers of terrific flavour and is packed with fresh chutneys and herbs. It really is mouth-wateringly good.

Today’s meat dishes are gluten free, and all dishes are nut free and dairy free…they are sure to hit the spot. Our homemade dishes are all very nutritious and healthy ensuring a good balance of protein, carbs and fat. Cooked with the minimum of coconut oil and no preservatives, it’s clean! The meat dishes are served with aged basmati rice .

Salads and cold bites

Come and try our healthy, delicious and wonderfully flavoursome salads that make healthy eating very enjoyable. Vegan friendly and dairy free mostly! We do have three choices of salad boxes, a 2 salad box, a 3 salad box and a 6 salad box each day and by popular request we have extra protein to add to your boxes – tandoori chicken strips, smoked salmon , prawns or green Edamame / soya beans at an additional cost. We also do a very exciting addition – Buddha Bowls, healthy balanced salad boxes to go. Ask the staff to walk you through the concept and make one to suit your fancy.

Pan Asia’s lip smacking salads of the day in the salad bar will be as follows:

Kale, Cauliflower, Stuufed Pepperdew and Rocket salad

Vietnamese Peanut and Greens salad

Spicy potatoes

Spicy Oriental Red Medley – tomatoes, beetroot and red onion salad

Wheatberry, Quinoa, Lentil, Blueberry and Mango salad

Tangy Carrot and Cucumber Som Tum salad

Thai spiced Noodle salad

Red and White Cabbage with Lemon, Mint

Kale and Stuffed Pepperdew salad

Soup and Hot Snacks

The soup today is a heart warming South Indian Rasam: Lentil, Pumpkin and Citrus.

Take a trip around eight Asian countries’ cuisines without leaving home

This week we are in the sub continent of India!

The Indian Sub Continent has a vibrant and highly complex cross cultural identity that is reflected in its cuisine which is a grand fusion of many influences through trade , invasion, economic migration and international relations.

Food is viewed as central to the country’s cultural identity and is something of a national obsession. It’s a constant topic of conversation and, for many, eating out is an everyday affair, be it at the many street hawker markets, malls, homes or restaurants.

Indian cuisine encompasses a wide variety of regional and traditional cuisines native to India. Given the range of diversity in soil type, climate, culture, ethnic group and occupations, these cuisines vary significantly from each other and use locally available spices, herbs, vegetables and fruits. We will make many of these regional dishes during the week.

Indian food is also heavily influenced by religious and cultural choices and traditions. There has also been Middle Eastern and Central Asian influence on Indian cuisine from the years of Mughal rule. Indian cuisine has been and is still evolving, as a result of the nation's cultural interactions with other societies and cultural groups e.g. Parsi, Persian, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Arab and the Chinese

Hard-to-find ingredients on your doorstep

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We specialise in truly authentic, hard-to-find Pan Asian ingredients and groceries for you to prepare your own nutritiously tasty meals. Feel free to ask for advice and cooking tips!

Tynemouth's Pan Asia Delicatessen and Gourmet Store is unique in providing at least 8 Asian cuisines under one roof by aggressively pursuing relations with specialist epicurists and wholesalers in London, Leicester, Manchester, Leeds and overseas (authentic brands and hard to find ingredients), local artisans as well as international distributors. It offers a more convenient and appealing option than ordering online or lugging fancy groceries back from trips to the nearest international store or wholesaler.

Quick & Easy meals

We have pre-packaged ready meals by Ashoka and Gitts which offer a wonderful, authentic Indian ready meals for you to try at very reasonable prices. These meals are highly suitable for vegans and make a great lunchtime healthy option to take into the office or workplace.

Pan Asia's own range is available to add to your freezer stock of ready meals.

Specialist advice on food preparation is available from our highly knowledgeable staff with mention of certain hard to find ingredients stocked on the shelves of the store and guidance on what may be purchased via normal supermarkets. Recipe cards will soon be available to inspire you to try unusual or unfamiliar products.

Chai teas and coffee

Asian teas of high quality ranging from delicious chais to green teas and herbal mixes are available to the discerning tea drinker.

We also have coffee from different parts of Asia.

We are sourcing and preparing to sell a range of high quality coffee beans from different parts of Asia.

Lessons, Catering, & Products

Cooking Lessons

Escape your home kitchen for a session learning how to prepare authentic dishes from a choice of Asian cuisines at Pan Asia Delicatessen & Gourmet Store. Our cooking classes are small in size to offer maximum individual guidance, highly informative, fun and memorable 5hr sessions designed to give you confidence and help you acquire skills to work with Asian spices, blends and ingredients to prepare dishes following recipes that are authentic for homestyle cooking.
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You have a choice of the following cuisines to try:

Asian cuisines takes skillful preparation and a knowledge of how to combine the right ingredients at the right time to create an exceptional dish. The lesson helps to teach you some of the essentials to unlock the secrets of wholesome, healthy yet delicious Asian cooking and with this guidance you can create wonderful dishes to impress family and friends at your next dinner party.

Cooking classes feature:

Introduction to Spices, ingredients, sequences, cooking echniques and pastes of your chosen Asian Cuisine
Demonstration followed by hands on session preparing the dishes whilst being guided
Tasting
2 course meal for two to take home and impress as well as enjoy!

It's a perfect gift for:

The budding home chef, someone that considers themselves a dab hand in the kitchen or anyone who would like to experiment and gain confidence in preparing dishes that they've never made before.

It's a fun and exciting team activity or a social activity with friends ending in sharing a meal together.......a great dinner party in the making!

Please note that all cooking school experiences are for those who are 18 years or older.

In each session, the level will be assessed through a pre-lesson discussion with you so as to maximise your experience. In each lesson, the participants will decide if they want to make a starter and main course or a main course and a dessert.

Enquire for schedule of lessons, availability and how to purchase gift vouchers by calling 0191 9083959 or messaging us on Facebook - Pan Asia Delicatessen & Gourmet Store.

Catering & Pop Ups

Looking for the WOW! factor at your next party or corporate function? Pan ASIA can offer a uniquely different, exceptionally tasty menu for you and your guests.

We take orders for one pot meals for 4, 6 or more people if you are entertaining at home and want something more interesting than your normal take away.

Why not ask at the counter for details on how to order or call on 0191 9083959.

Through the Cinnamon Supper Club, a pop up experience offering a 5 course taster menu from different parts of the Indian Sub- Continent, we will help raise funds for certain local charities whilst taking our guest diners through a fantastic, informative culinary journey of an Indian region. Our venues of choice are interesting and atmospheric. Next one will be in February and the tickets will go on sale in January 2018. We can cater for any dietary restrictions.

A member of staff will be most pleased to take your reservation at the counter in store or alternatively contact us on 0191 908 3959

Gifts & New Products

Struggling to find gifts? Maybe you have a birthday coming up? For anyone who loves to cook or simply enjoys good food, Pan Asia have the perfect gift. With a variety of cuisines, ingredients and recipe books we are sure to have something to suit your needs.

Why not try our Limited Edition Chocolates, unique to Pan Asia and bespoke. We have teamed up with Jane Williams of Davenports Choclates to create an amazing new taste sensation when it comes to chocolates combining Teas and Spices!! How cool and unusual is that!!
We have the in two sizes of beautifully boxed Choclates - 6 flavours : small box of 12 and large box of 24.

Philosophy

My vision was to provide my customers with an opportunity to share my passion for healthy eating and cooking through an upscale Asian grocery and delicatessen. I wanted it to focus on and specialise in certain Pan Asian foods with a distinct yet changing menu that includes authentic, hard-to-find ingredients from across the Asian continent. A science exists behind the combining of foods and flavours that plays a huge part in our physical wellbeing, optimum energy flows and mental wellbeing. I wanted to present this in our food at the shop for customers to enjoy. So in August 2016, Pan Asia Delicatessen and Gourmet Store was opened for business.

Every dish prepared is fresh, preservative free, and balanced in nutritional value following successful principles tested for centuries by Asians. A balance of highly nourishing foods made with great quality ingredients and packed with awesome flavours is our goal each day. Home style cooking at its best from each region of Asia is researched, mastered and prepared for your enjoyment. The deli serves mouth-watering meat, fish, and vegetarian options, delicious salads, appetising gluten free dishes, and healthy yet tasty clean foods. All products are packaged and sold to be consumed off the premises.

We have a gluten free and clean foods line of packaged products that are hard to find in other delicatessens or specialist grocers. Ready to go food dishes are prepared on site daily as fresh, chilled or frozen. Our Promise is Fresh, Homemade and Healthy. We want you to have an exciting food experience and customer service with a smile.